“Loose Lips Sink Ships” was (and is)
a military admonition of caution.

A few years ago leaks of classified
information prompted the president to limit top-secret briefings to just
eight House and Senate leaders. Some may argue that’s eight too many…or
97 too few.

There ARE consequences to what we do
and don’t do, and nowhere more so than in the arena of intelligence.

If one were to offend the sensibilities
of political correctness the immediate draconian consequences are axiomatic:
Crucify the bastard! However, if ‘certain people’ outrageously break law,
policy and procedures with intelligence matters, accountability drifts
on the wind of partisan proclivities.

In December 2004 intelligence types
were allegedly seeking a criminal investigation into the outing of a top-secret
spy-satellite program by some disagreeable Democrat Senators.

The Bush administration was major league
torqued over leaks about a new covert generation of satellites.

The premature, inappropriate Congressional
brain flatulence was articulated by Sens. Jay Rockefeller and Ron Wyden.
Although the petty partisan hacks didn’t ID the satellite program or give
details, a Washington Post follow-up identified the program for what it
is.

The details included in the Post make
clear that people with intimate knowledge of the program leaked details.

"At a minimum, what they did was irresponsible,"
said an official. It was way more… Once upon a time discussions were under
way about whether to ask Senate Republicans to consider removing Rockefeller
and Wyden from the committee. That was December. I haven’t been able to
find ‘Jack’ since.

Despite the vacuous incompetence of
the Senate Ethics Committee (as worthless as mammary glands on a bull),
in the interest of maintaining the fiction of credibility, the ‘form’
of an investigation should have been imperative.

Meanwhile a criminal grand jury allegedly
is still looking into whether former National Security Adviser Berger
should be charged for removal of documents from the National Archives.
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This is (or should be) a big deal.

Berger admitted he removed as many as 50 top-secret
documents from the archives, calling it an "honest mistake". Not even!

He also acknowledged
he destroyed some documents, but claimed it was by accident. Accident
my Airborne fourth point of contact!

Leahy ‘inadvertently’ disclosed a top-secret
communications intercept during a [1985] television interview.

"The intercept...made possible the capture of
the Arab terrorists who had hijacked the cruise ship Achille Lauro and
murdered American citizens…

The reports cost the life of at least one Egyptian
operative involved in the operation."

In July 1987, it was reported Leahy leaked secret
information about a 1986 covert operation planned by the Reagan administration
to topple Libya’s Moammar Gaddhafi.

U.S. intelligence officials said Leahy; along
with the Republican panel chairman sent a written threat to expose the
operation directly to then-CIA Director William Casey.

Weeks later, news of the secret plan turned
up in the Washington Post, causing it to be aborted.

A year later, as the Senate was preparing to
hold hearings on the Iran-Contra scandal, Leahy had to resign his Intelligence
Committee post after he was caught leaking secret information to a reporter.

He should have been indicted, tried
and sentenced.

Leahy’s Iran-Contra leak was considered
to be one of the most serious breaches of secrecy in the Intelligence
Committee's 10-year history. But that was before Sen. Richard Shelby leaked
that we were tapping Osama bin Laden’s satellite phone. Bin Laden immediately
stopped using it, and denied us the opportunity to find and kill the s.o.b..

Cicero said, “A nation can survive
its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within…for
the traitor appears not a traitor…He rots the soul of a nation…he infects
the body politic so that it can no longer resist.”

Cicero said, “A nation can survive
its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within…for
the traitor appears not a traitor…He rots the soul of a nation…he infects
the body politic so that it can no longer resist.”